Dov Feldstern wrote:
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
Dov Feldstern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
| > "Elazar Leibovich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > | On 28 May 2007 23:07:36 +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes
| > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > | > "Elazar Leibovich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > | >
| > | > | Isn't that wise that the language will be automatically
detected by
| > | > | the input-language. ie, English letters will always be
English,
| > | > | Hebrew/Arabic letters will always be Hebrew/Arabic and neutral
| > | > | characters will be the same language of the paragraph.
| > | > | That way, the user won't be forced to learn new key
combinations to
| > | > | switch languages.
| > | >
| > | > I think I said in some other mail some hours ago:
| > | > (paraphrasing)
| > | > "There is a difference between characters and language. You
wouldn't
| > | > expect all latin characters to mean that you are writing
latin would
| > | > you?"
| > | | You did and it is true generally. However, there is a
| > difference. In
| > | hebrew you'll never ever wish to have hebrew characters written
in a
| > | language different than Hebrew. It'll just be outputted
wrongfully.
| > What about norwegian? Could it be that I'd like to write a hebrew
| > character there? as a reference to something? As a linguist f.ex?
| >
| | Well, I think you're misunderstanding each other:
| | Certainly, you may be writing a document in Norwegian, and want to
| insert some Hebrew.
Hmm da hmm... but no that is not what I want. I don't want to insert
some hebrew, just a character from the hebrew alphabet.
If to get this hebrew character output/rendered by latex it mean that
this single char is enclosed in some \lang{hebrew} is an export
detail. I am still not using any hebrew in my document.
Well, for that you have to use a latex package which supports this.
Ivritex doesn't, AFAIK. ArabTeX might be what you want, I'm not sure.
Can you do this with any arbitrary unicode character?
You can insert any unicode character into LyX these days.
For example - you can open a unicode test page in your web browser,
and paste the text into LyX. I have a LyX document with runes, chinese,
and klingon even. Latex hates it - of course.
Helge Hafting
